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Jean de La Bruyere once said that we perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Studies show that participation in all types of physical activity declines strikingly as age or grade in school increases.
Economic growth in Mongolia improved in 1997-99 after stalling in 1996 due to a series of natural disasters, and declines in world prices of copper and cashmere.
The economy of Yemen has been harmed by periodic declines in oil prices.
The road declines sharply.
Jean de La Bruyere once said that we perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
The human body is feeble at its commencement, increases gradually in its progress by the help of nourishment and exercise, till it arrives at a certain period, when it appears in full vigour; from this time it insensibly declines to old age, which conducts it at length to dissolution.
As a matter of course, the prosaic modern etymologist declines to accept this origin of the name and has proposed others less picturesque.
The world is still well supplied with them, and they are, undeniably, a thorn in the flesh of the scientific forecaster, who sometimes sees his predictions confounded with theirs by the public, and who commonly incurs the charge of jealousy and narrow-mindedness because he declines to acknowledge brotherhood with the cranks and impostors who hang about the outskirts of his profession.
Perhaps the Tailor and Cutter knows, but, upon the principle that knowledge is power, declines to say; anyway, whatever changes the immediate future may have in store for us, we may take comfort from the fact that they must necessarily be in the direction of betterment, since, having recently emerged from that bottomless pit of all that is æsthetically terrible-the Victorian era: the era of the crinoline, the antimacassar, and of wax flowers under glass-we could not possibly strike a lower depth.
Not much more amiable are the feelings of the author towards the publisher who declines his wares; and I have always felt that Washington Irving must have had a keen and legitimate satisfaction in prefixing to his immensely popular "Sketch-Book" the flummery in which old John Murray wrapped up his refusal of the manuscript:- "I entreat you to believe that I feel truly obliged by your kind intentions towards me, and that I entertain the most unfeigned respect for your most tasteful talents.
While traditional logic has much to say about truth, the truth it talks about is mere formal consistency, since it declines to consider the material application of its premises.
Neligan admits that their action is permanent, and produced slowly; he also declines any explanation of the action of Quina and others in Ague, calling them specifics.
We do not all look with simple indifference on a man who declines to take the right means to attain his own happiness, on no other ground than that he does not care about happiness.
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